You Are Great Than You Know by Lou Austin

"Ask Him to drive who knows the way." p. 51

"Behold I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me." ~ Revelation 3:20 qtd p.54

"Christ, who taught that no man walks alone, that his Maker is integrated with each human being living, working, partnership. Clearly, the Partnership concept is not new in any sense." 

Divine unity, God guiding, man doing...ever-present active Partner p. 59

"Epictetus said: "You came into this world not because you chose to  or where you chose to but because the world has need of you." p. 66

"Free of the pressure, tension, and strain that causes breakdowns"

 p. 59

"How good a servant are you for your Partner, the Creator?" p. 74

"I have come," Christ said,  "that you might have my joy." p. 73

"Just as your Partner provides for your growth, so does He provide for your pruning." p. 127 

 p. 56

Life's great decision: ego or God. p. 55

My Spirit is within you, integrated with your very being." p. 59

No man walks alone...

Our maker is integrated with each human being in a living, working...

Partnership concept is not new in any sense... p. 52

Question stuck in my mind. It became my own Question: As simple and natural as breathing?  p. 80

"Rest assured that when you are Ripe, the time will be Ripe, and all other things having to do with the particular situation will be Ripe." p. 52

Secret as Simple as breathing? " the Creator always works in simple ways - so simple they seem mysterious - His wonders to perform." p.115

"Trust - Truth revealed - Truth which transformed LIFE ... The Kingdom of God is within you."

"Unity of man and Maker." p. 59

"Vigorous[!] You were put here for a purpose." p. 62

"Waves of God would flow into me, conferring a sense of quiet strength and peace." p. 56

physical X spiritual = Metaphysical 

Zechariah 13:9 "This third I will put into the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold.

They will call on my name and I will answer them; I will say, ‘They are my people,’ and they will say, ‘The Lord is our God.’” 

SPRING 2021 is Here! Yay! important bits from the week just past

All Souls New London service, 21 March 21 "

Birthday

Celebrations

Dryer Buddies that are Hedgehogs :) cute!

"Eternal Flame" by the Bangles was play when I walked into a store... feels like eons ago

“Feelings arise from inside, and they get their shape in words. When words are not enough, people sigh; when there are not enough sighs, people sing; when there is not enough singing, arms begin moving gracefully and feet begin stomping. A dance is a powerful form of... [cont'd at "x" below]

Give back love 

Holi Celebration at Meredith College March 1, 2015

"I mean the strength of your spirit to encourage others to become freer in the development of their diversity and uniqueness. I mean the power to sustain more complex and enriching tensions. I mean the magnanimity of concern to provide conditions that enable others to increase in stature." Bernard Loomer

Joyfully dissatisfied, an interpretation from Zac Poonan talk (see "R" below)

Keep saying yes boldly courageously, lovingly

"Loved Into Being" - UUA Service - March 21, 2021 - Logan's 25th Birthday

"Message behind the words is the voice of the heart. ~ Rumi ♥

New London community

 listen and watch here

Puzzle coming along nicely

Quote from Gary Michael Tartakov, an American scholar of caste, said of this country [during the pandemic of 2020]: “This is a civilization searching for its humanity. It dehumanized others to build its civilization. Now it needs to find its own.” Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

"Reaching Forward to What Lies Ahead" March 14, 2021  Zac Poonan 

Seal - "Love's Divine" lyrics : Love can help me know my name - please watch and listen here

"Through it all, we are loved by a love that will never let us go."

Voice of Kim Perry "Aversion" or A Version? "Valued and welcome" click here to read Kim's post

"Walk the talk"

"...eXpression. It is a conversation with the heaven and the earth in one. Movements disappear as soon as they emerge. Dances exist only for a fleeting moment. This is the metaphor of life itself”. Lin Hwai-min

Yes! audaciously say Yes! Love is what I need to know my name

Zora Neale Hurston: “Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” 

the glory and the freshness of a dream

"...A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees..." ~ William Blake "Proverbs of Hell"

"Blake's vision sees each of us as part of a larger divine whole rather than as atomized individuals. Seeing things in this way...

"...Changes a person's whole understand." source

"Divine blessing - the life of Heaven experienced on earth." Tim Mackie, Bible Project podcast

Episode 241 "Who Was Melchizedek?" listen here

Farthing: farthing is an old monetary unit, withdrawn in 1961, that is worth one fourth of a penny. Blake believes that a single farthing is worth more to a poor man than all the gold in Africa to the more fortunate. This farthing could buy a poor man some bread in order to survive, whereas superfluous gold for the rich is not the difference between life and death." source

"Growing Your Knowledge of God" Tony Evans listen here

"How majestic is your name in all the land" ~ Psalm 8

Inclusio: a literary device based on a concentric principle, also known as bracketing or an envelope structure, which consists of creating a frame by placing similar material at the beginning and end of a section. source

Jehovah Jireh meaning our provider. provision. provisional. "our daily bread" think about that

Know if there is a door in my heart where Jesus is still standing and Knocking. 2 Thessalonians 2:10-11 

Listening to "Who Was Melchizedek? – Priest E2, BibleProject Podcast

My gifts and influence (treasure) multiplied by His immeasurable Treasure = God's Will for my life

"No matter how long the Winter, Spring is sure to follow" ~ Proverb

"Order, safety, secure, abundance, and God's presence, all become aspects of the blessing."

Psalm 8 Bible Project video

Quatrain (see "W") repeated in "The Everlasting Gospel" by William Blake

Reviewing the past week's reading, listening and observing : "Reverence above acceptance..." 

"Sovereign Lord" Dr. Randall Smith One. Book. One Hour: Ezekiel" Sacred Space, Sacred Task

"The earth, and every common sight. Apparell'd in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. ... That there hath pass'd away a glory from the earth." ~ Wordsworth

"Unconstrained by habit and convention. Unencumbered by what is, ready to seize what ought to be." President Obama 

Video of Obama Foundation Unveiling click here

 "We are led to Believe a Lie / When we see not Thro the Eye / Which was Born in a Night to perish in a Night / When the Soul Slept in Beams of Light" ~ William Blake "Auguries of Innocence"

 source

eXile from the Heaven and Earth place becomes the crisis that needs to be resolved

Yusuf / Cat Stevens – "The Wind" listen here and watch another version here

Zac Poonan "Reaching Forward to What Lies Ahead" March 14, 2021 River of Life Christian Fellowship (listen/watch here)

Circumambulation.. An inward spiral.. An upward spiral... March 2021

"Biblical apologetic is the best use of our natural faculties of thought in submission to the Holy Spirit to remove doubts and problems that hinder a trustful, energetic participation in a life of personal relationship with God." p. 48 The Allure of Gentleness by Dallas Willard 

Circumambulation.. An inward spiral.. An upward spiral.

Dealing with Doubt p.36 of  The Allure of Gentleness Dissolved is duromenone, which really 

means turned loose... 

"Everything will be turned loose, come apart, dissolve...earth is a very small part of creation, and we want to keep that in mind...E = mc². Once we learn to read that equation from left to right as well as from right to left, it helps us understand that God’s action transforms his energy into matter (Gen. 1; Heb. 11:3). That’s the nice thing about equations—they work in both directions.  p.90-92 

"Faith as something that is based on knowledge as well as something that goes beyond anything you could know, and involves a commitment to ...

God and his kingdom. Those two things, knowledge and commitment, are not exclusive of one another; rather, they are related. If we do not have a knowledge of God at the Foundation of our commitment, that commitment simply will not hold up." p. 95

“Habibi: Arabic for dear one, dear friend or my beloved. check out Ken's full moon ocean video here

“It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our 

“...Job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.” ~ L.R. Knost

"Keep in mind that the physical universe is not all  he created. When we read Genesis 1:1, it says, “In the beginning when God created the heavens”—plural—“and the earth.” But we sort of zip by the heavens and focus on the earth as if that’s all that really matters." p. 92 of  The Allure of Gentleness

Listening and reading to The Allure of Gentleness by Dallas Willard at PLNL, a Lovely break from projects

Monday March 1, 2021 Sunset

New London sunrises are so much more beautiful than I'd expected 

March 6, 2021

"Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" by William Wordsworth here

"Quark soup"  after the big bang, order could have emerged in it such as we have—especially when we look at the various great walls of galaxies, which seem totally incomprehensible from the viewpoint 

of cosmic evolution as we’ve understood it."p.87 The Allure of Gentleness by Dallas Willard

Role of  Reason: Reason is the human ability to see a Relationship between real or possible facts and other real or possible facts, such that if you have the one, you have the other...By reasoning, he’s trying to draw them out to where they will come to understand." p.54-68 The Allure of Gentleness by Dallas Willard 

Sunrise on this day, March 7, 2021

"Trust God and use your head." ~ p.51 of  The Allure of Gentleness by Dallas Willard

"...Use Understanding without leaning on it. And that’s what Jesus did. Proverbs 3:5 says, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own Understanding” (NIV). 

"Vision of the self-subsistent being without which all of the universe as we know it would simply fold up and disappear—that knowledge, that faith, that Vision is the rock upon which we can build our lives."

William (both Wordsworth and Blake) quotes are shared beginning at min 17 Jordan Peterson video as he reads from his new book Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life

"Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free" ~ John 8:32

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